https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-61335711

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Doctors and paramedics have told the BBC that long waits for ambulances across the UK are having a "dangerous impact" on patient safety.

There were 551 serious safety reports filed by ambulance staff in England between March 2021 and February 2022, up from 312 in the same period before the pandemic.

Within that data, there were 201 unintended or unexpected deaths, up from 78 in 2019/20.

The response time for a category two emergency, such as a heart attack or a stroke, has risen to more than 51 minutes, almost three times longer than the 18-minute target.

On one recent shift, the longest wait for a category two emergency was more than 15 hours, for an elderly man with abdominal pain. When the crew arrived the next morning, they found the man dead.

Ambulance crews themselves have faced long delays when they pick up patients and then try to deliver them to hospital staff in a busy emergency department.

In the first week of April, around one in ten patients had to wait more than an hour for their ambulance to be unloaded in England, well above the 15-minute NHS target.

Dr Katherine Henderson, an A&E consultant and president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, told the BBC's Today programme the problem with ambulance waits was "more serious than we've ever seen it".

Dr Henderson explained the bottleneck was caused by emergency departments having to wait to move patients into wards.

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Patients are dying where they fall, waiting hours for an ambulance to turn up, because there are ambulance and staff shortage plus transfer delays.

Ambulances can't deliver patients because A&E is full. A&E is full because they can't move people into wards because there are no beds. There are no beds because the NHS doesn't have enough capacity and patients are bed-blocking. Patients are bed-blocking because there aren't the social care resources to take them.

The government supposedly raised National Insurance to fix the social care problem, but none of that money is going into social care.

None of the new hospitals lying serial liar Johnson promised materialised.

We are being turned into a third world country by a government which has ruthlessly set about destroying the NHS so it can privatise it.